Sep 22
Dirty Water Thursday – DJ Night (Blues)
Kick-off the Dirty Water Lindy & Blues Exchange with a blues dance featuring DJs Joey Science and Stephen York!
Joey Science is a dork for both lindy hop and blues. From 2010-2016, Joey ran 50Fifty, a lindy and blues dance in Chicago, DJing sweet tunes whenever needed. Joey has taken DJ lessons from both Dan Repsch and Rob Moreland and is always looking to learn more about the super rad job of playing music to keep people moving. They love supporting modern swing and blues bands and have an ear out for new albums all of the time.
Stephen York – There are times he has been seen stalking across the MIT campus, his mutterings circling back and again to rhythm, to structure, to any element he can use to link his obsession back to his shivering
reality. He has heard the world and the smallest bit of what it offers. His search for more, for anything else he was able to gather in his flashbulb glimpse has brought him to lead others. Those who follow him through the murky streets of Boston seek to glean whatever ghostly tones he will drop in his wake like hard candy: enough to keep them near, never enough to satisfy or surpass…
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Blues Intermediate Class – 7:30-8:30pm
Blues Basics class: 8:30-9:30pm
Social Dancing: 9:30 – 11:30pm
Lesson and Dance Admission: $10
Dance Admission ONLY: $5
Dance Union aka Blues Union
16 Bow St, Somerville, MA 02143 (map)